Car-coupling



(No Model.)

- A. J. ELLIOTT.

GAR COUPLING.

No. 892,596. Patented Nov. 18, 1888.

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$PECIPICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,596, dated November 13, 1889.

Application filed May 3, 1888. Serial No. 272,726. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, A. Jonson ELLIOTT, acitizen of the United States, residing at Mason City, in the county of Oerro Gordo and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain new and useful Improve ments in Oar-Couplings; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Thespecial object of theinvention is to make an improvement on the car-coupling described in Patent No. 359,599, so that the draft-iron or drop-bar and the link-holder may bein separate pieces. This enables me to get a center draft on the drop-bar, and prevents it from being lifted when the cars come together in stopping or slowing up.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front View of the draw-head and coupling; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view, and Fig. 3 a detail View, of the drop-bar and link-holder on the same pivot.

In the drawings, A represents a draw-head having the front opening,.a, through which the link enters, raises the drop-bar B until it falls into the link-opening, then raises the weighted link-bar G, which bears upon its end and retains it in a horizontal position.

D is a cross-pin, which passes transversely through the front and upper part of the drawhead and across the vertical draw-head slot 0.. ()n this pin is pivoted the front end, b, of the drop-bar, while on each side of it are pivoted the arms 0 c of the linleholder. By this construction the drop-bar B is carried up and down in coupling or uncoupling independently of the link-holder 0, while the latter is raised by the end of the link without lifting the drop-bar. The link-holder O moves up and down in the vertical draw-head holes a of, while on the under side it has a cavity, 0, which receives the end of the link after the drop-bar has fallen through it and into its place.

Having thus described all that is necessary to a full understanding of myinvention, what I claim as new, is-

In a car-coupling, the combination, with the cross-pin D in the upper part of the front end of the draw-head, of the drop-bar B and linkholder 0, having arms a c, said arms and the front end of said drop-bar being Tooth pivoted on the said pin, whereby the drop'bar and linkholder may be operated independently, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

A. JUDSON ELLIOTT. I

WVitnesses:

CHARLES H. HUG-HES, DAVID Srnncnn. 

